Carradice is pronounced in Italian.
Kings Cross - St Pancras became Kings Cross - SpankrelHammersmith and City line became Hamblespliff and Pretty
Quote from: fboab on 04 October, 2018, 08:55:58 amCarradice is pronounced in Italian. I'm glad that I am not the only one.
Quote from: Efrogwr on 04 October, 2018, 09:16:50 amQuote from: fboab on 04 October, 2018, 08:55:58 amCarradice is pronounced in Italian. I'm glad that I am not the only one.Didn’t Gunner (from an old forum) pronouce Giant (the brand of his bike) Gee-an-tay?
Not silly at all: I refer to the tube lines by their colour. “Which line are we getting?” “The green one”.
Kim, you are very bad!
Probably everyone does this but when crossing the border into Scotland I always hum a few bars of Scotland the Brave. For some reason I don't feel inspired to hum Rule Britannia coming back the other way.
It's not a dishwasher, it's a wish-dosher
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.
Quote from: Jaded on 04 October, 2018, 07:03:29 amNot silly at all: I refer to the tube lines by their colour. “Which line are we getting?” “The green one”.Not silly thing I do: Try not to waste too much brain capacity remembering what colours arbitrary things are supposed to be, when they have perfectly good more obvious means of identification."Which line are we getting?""The green one.""Which one is that?""The District line.""Why didn't you just say so?"Trichromats are weird.
I sometimes replace the suffix "-y" (or "-ie") on words with "-ance" to make it more polite sounding.
Quote from: Woofage on 04 October, 2018, 12:36:12 pmI sometimes replace the suffix "-y" (or "-ie") on words with "-ance" to make it more polite sounding.Stinkance?
When driving through france from Calais, no matter what the time of day or night or the somnambulance state of my passengers, when we pass the first sign to Aarques, I squawk like a parrot, loudly. (at least, a parrot that squawks "Ark")